alphawiki vs. TWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features alphawiki TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Version
v.20160608
TWiki-6.1.0
5.1.21
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.33
Last Release Date
2016-08-05 (7 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (10 days ago)
Last Update here
2016-09-10 (7 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-21 (9 days ago)
Author
marty alain
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GNU-GPL
GPL
BSD
GPL 2
GPL2+
Programming Language
PHP+Javascript
Perl, JavaScript
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users, small teams
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Individuals, private, small groups
personal, small to medium companies
All
System Requirements alphawiki TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Operating System
probably every OS
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
A common browser
none
Datastorage alphawiki TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Other
None
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam alphawiki TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
optional extensions available
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
nofollow
No
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Development/Support alphawiki TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
7039 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features alphawiki TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features alphawiki TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links alphawiki TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features alphawiki TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability alphawiki TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics alphawiki TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Output alphawiki TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Media and Files alphawiki TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras alphawiki TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples alphawiki TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
1) standard syntax :
{h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6
2) alternate form :
_h1 TITLE (until end of line)
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
{b I am bold}
*bold*
''bold''
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
{i I am italic}
_italic_
//italic//
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
{u I am underline}
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{monospaced}}}
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
{del I am line-through}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
E = mc{sup 2}
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
1) static image, simple :
{img {@ src="data/image.jpg"}}

2) static image, complete :
{img 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"  
height="200"
title="infotext"
}}

3) click_enlarging image :
{show 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"
height="200" 
width="400" 
title="infotext"
}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
{center I am centered}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Plugin
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
1) standard :
{ul
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ul item 1
_ul item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
1) standard :
{ol
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ol item 1
_ol item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
$ Term: Definition
; term
: description
Plugin
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
{hr}
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